The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 7. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... gals : yet fo as to let the world know , my love or eftcem for you are no more poetic than my talent in fcribling . But of all the arts of fiction I defire I defire you to believe I want that of feigning 36 LETTERS TO AND.
... gals : yet fo as to let the world know , my love or eftcem for you are no more poetic than my talent in fcribling . But of all the arts of fiction I defire I defire you to believe I want that of feigning 36 LETTERS TO AND.
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... poet , in spite of your wit ; for a poet's fuccefs at first , like a gamefter's fortune at first , is like to make him a lofer at last , and to be undone by his good fortune and merit . But hitherto your miscellanies have safely run the ...
... poet , in spite of your wit ; for a poet's fuccefs at first , like a gamefter's fortune at first , is like to make him a lofer at last , and to be undone by his good fortune and merit . But hitherto your miscellanies have safely run the ...
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... poets in this nation as your fervant . This modern custom of appearing in mifcellanies , is very useful to the poets , who , like other thieves , efcape by getting into a crowd , and herd toge- ther like Banditti , fafe only in their ...
... poets in this nation as your fervant . This modern custom of appearing in mifcellanies , is very useful to the poets , who , like other thieves , efcape by getting into a crowd , and herd toge- ther like Banditti , fafe only in their ...
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... poet , he may give up his pretenfions to all the rich and thriving arts : those who have once made their court to thofe miftreffes without portions , the Mufes , are never like to fet up for fortunes . But for my part , I shall be ...
... poet , he may give up his pretenfions to all the rich and thriving arts : those who have once made their court to thofe miftreffes without portions , the Mufes , are never like to fet up for fortunes . But for my part , I shall be ...
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... poets , as Kings fometimes do knights , not for their honour , but for their money . Certainly he ought to be efteem'd a worker of miracles , who is grown rich by poetry . What Authors lofe , their Bookfellers have won , So Pimps grow ...
... poets , as Kings fometimes do knights , not for their honour , but for their money . Certainly he ought to be efteem'd a worker of miracles , who is grown rich by poetry . What Authors lofe , their Bookfellers have won , So Pimps grow ...
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Page 252 - ... not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much ; and I...
Page 339 - Lucretius to publish against Tonson's ; agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. He made a great progress in a very short time, and I gave it to the corrector to compare with the Latin; but he went directly to Creech's translation, and found it the same word for word, all but the first page. Now, what d'ye think I did ? I arrested the translator for a cheat ; nay, and I stopped the corrector's pay too, upon this proof that he had made use of Creech instead of the...
Page 337 - As Mr. Lintot was talking, I observed he sat uneasy on his saddle, for which I expressed some solicitude : Nothing, says he, I can bear it well enough ; but since we have the day before us, methinks it would be very pleasant for you to rest awhile under the woods.
Page 294 - ... me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Page 95 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Page 327 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much strangers to revenge, as they are to avarice and ambition, they might in fact answer the poetical notions of ,the golden age.
Page 252 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Page 100 - Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends...
Page 255 - ... included of his belief in its immortality. The diminutive epithets of vagula, blandula...
Page 338 - I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter, and cry, Ah, this is Hebrew, I must read it from the latter end.